Virginia Woolf Quotes, Children Quotes, Lakes Quotes

For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, "This is what I have made of it! This!" And what had she made of it? What, indeed?

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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Water Quotes

Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.

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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

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In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

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Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

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O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Rocks Quotes

Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

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The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

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I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)

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There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Lakes Quotes

My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!

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Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Lakes Quotes , World Quotes

We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

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Tags : Adam Sandler Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Squares Quotes

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

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The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

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I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Wind Quotes

What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Men Quotes , Lakes Quotes

No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Circles Quotes

I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.

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